I think Nick is alive and many many many many pages from now, he’ll pop up out of nowhere with a real hardcore vengeance against Alex and Nastajia for beating the living crap out of him, giving him a lot of new scars, and taking away his kingdom. But he’ll want to see Alex and Nick dead before he even thinks about taking over Dreamland again, because how dare a human and an elf best an almighty dragon. Heck, I think Nastajia is first on his hit list since she skewered him.

Nick strikes me as the kind of character that won’t back down forever because he’s been continually defeated, and Nastajia skewering him was a clear sign that she wanted him dead, so I think that Nick won’t stop till either of them are dead.

I think there’s something wrong with the perspective in the first panel. The mer-people seem too close by. It looks like they’re only a few metres away, while we can see in the last page (and earlier pages I believe) that there is quite a distance between the platform Nastajia and Alex are standing on and the water below.

“They haven’t found anything–yet.”
“Hmm… Has anybody suggested they try looking down at the bottom of the ocean instead of swimming around on the surface looking up here?”
“No. Why? Do you think we should?”

Haha, you’re right. They look like they’re just having a field trip out at the beach or something XD Why ARE they on the surface? ^^;

Speaking of which, why is Nastajia showing Alex this in the middle of a discussion about Nicole and the sword? Is it just to rescue Alex from the wrath of Orion? I sure hope Orion isn’t saying insensitive things to Felicity while those 2 are away =/ What happened to Kiwi, by the way? I would have expected Kiwi to be the kind of person to jump out and say “hey now, you don’t have to be meeeaaan!!!”

About your computer. Have you checked to see how much RAM you have, and could upgrade too? Many be you need to condense the hard drive information, and clean it up too? Those things can help out since I work on computer and you wouldn’t believe my costumers reaction when I tell them that. It would also would help out on saving money that you may not need to spend on too.
On the strip, too bad the body of Nick. could not be found, since I have come to dispised the character on his thirst for power(kind of reminds us what is going on in todays world). But it will be interesting to see him come back even more tyrannical to wipe out everybody for what they did to him…

12GB of RAM would indicate a newer motherboard and an Operating system that can handle that amount (ol XP would faint at the thought of 12GB of RAM heh heh). Might be able to get away with a Processor upgrade and still keep all your current equipment.